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Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling cover artvsThe Walking Dead cover art

Looking Up I See Only a CeilingvsThe Walking Dead

Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Walking Dead leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Looking Up I See Only a CeilingThe Walking Dead

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling leans harder on variance: Story beats are scripted-but-unknown once

Optimization3 vs 2

Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling leans harder on optimization: Light puzzles barely resist solving

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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